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Best Poems Written by Michelle Rensburg

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Blue Moon

Blue Moon


The sky, a great banner
Rockets of a long forgotten land
Never reaching a destination.


Constellations
Distant, yet calling 
"Remember us and what we used to be..."
Silent whispering
Traveling the currents of time.
The speed of light
Faster than adrenaline pumping
Stars colliding, 
In a sky laced with glittering veins. 


Cold and haunting
Stone and dusting
A seamless world
Connected in its complex bareness
Stained with an ill-conceived awareness.


Ancient wisdoms held in contempt 
Centuries suppressed by regret. 
Eerily etched in space
Gasses and flame
Burning and alight
Out of the darkness comes the light.


The distant asteroid-fields 
Alive and magnetic
Distant worlds, cold and majestic.


Sandstorms raging on like great monsoons
A shooting star comes again
Hitting home,
Once in a Blue Moon.
                                                             - RAINBUG

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Peace Be With You

Peace be with you
are the words she said
Flowers placed appropriately 
Saying goodbye to the dead.

She wasn't false
And yet, it wasn't true
Because there were things
She just couldn't undo.

A while she stayed
And many things she did pray
But in her head is where the words would remain
For if she dared speak them aloud,
she knew her heart would break.

When the sky took upon an orange glow
She knew that it was time to go.
To leave them there was harder 
Much harder, than she’d imagined.

But her mother had told her many times before,
“Rest easy my child. Today it hurts, 
but tomorrow, it’s a new day.
It won’t bare the pain of yesterday
anymore.”

With that in mind
She made to leave,
Hoping that the souls left behind,
Would find peace.
And forgive her, for the words she wished to keep.

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By-Products of a Series of Unfortunate Events

Whether it be of stone or not 
The tower would still stand
Whether the water was of sea or sand
It would still flow

Whether the birds that fly South
 Do or do not
The direction
They would always know

If life on Earth could cease to exist
As it should
Earth would still exist
If life should not

The insanity of it all
Is still watching with idle disdain
As we all remain, 
Quiet and patient
Filled with that everlasting compassion
Veiled behind a pretentious approach.

Why have we angered so?

When 

Life is diversity
Life is pure
Life is sweet

Life is kindness
 That which should not be denied

It is true

Lives have been stolen
Yet, lives have been shared
Life is everywhere
Yet, no-one cares

Life is remembered
Life is retold
Life is the spirit
Of a ten-month-old

Life is united
Life is found
Life is free bound
Life is a tree, rising from the ground

In the many lives of life
We see so many faces
Some dense
Some transparent
Some closer to the core
Some better than them all

Changes come, changes go
Changes in season
Changes in reason
Changes in succession

Remembrance
In the voices of your reason
Creation
In those whose who descend you
Clarity
In the bringing of the seasons

Dedicate a lifetime
Change the Fates Design
Re-write our Mothers’ history

Design the life
You have chosen
Remind those prepared to give up
THEY CONTROL THEIR DESTINY

Revere evolution
She has come again
For without her
There would be no
By-products Of a series Of Unfortunate Events

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Fibers, My Life's Nemesis

Floating free, that you may be
Until here you comemy work undone
Sticking to lacquered phalanges.
I squeal and cuss, tug and fuss,
but still, you refuse to budge.

Gone is my elegant pose
Temper set, nostrils flared
I come charging down the slope!
Once a sticky, hairy mess
Get's ripped up from its rest.

I cackle with mirth and quiet content
When upon my shiny exterior
Here it comes, Oh! the inferior...

Soothing gestures can't help me now,
Scribbles of anger across my brow
No one can aid me in this crisis...
Why, oh, why - Fibers, my life's nemesis.

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Bitter Authority

Raise your hands 
As you walk that line
Raise your hand
You do it all the time

Fall behind as your eyes fill with judgment
Eyes clouded
Eyes red.
Angry eyes
Your head filled with lies

What future do you perceive?
What are these crimes of which
 you’ve already convicted me?
Pray tell, how is it that I deceive? 

My words - stolen
My mind whirling 
How has it come to this? 

Oh, please tell me
Where will I find some ambiguity
For your Bitter Authority?

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Chasing Flowers

Here I sit
Pondering why, oh, why
Shan't I leap up
Give in to my impulses
Set my feet running
And travel the world.

I know it would be stunning
To spend my life
Chasing flowers.

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Cracked Faces

They came in the night
When the rich man rested
And the poor man gazed at the night sky

Both were far away
In a dreamland
Thinking of milk and honey
A time when they had more in their tummies.

The rich man had heard on the news that this time was upon them
The poor man had seen how his people struggled to buy beans and samp.
Both men knew that something had to be done.
Before it was too late; before everything was gone.

The wind swirled the dust around all the houses.
Dry tongues and aching heads
Deserted places 
And Cracked Faces
When would the calling of the drums be heard?
This is the pot we have stirred.
Was there a lesson to be learned?

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Night Tidings

A jackal cries in the distance
And I jolt awake
The candle is still awake 
And my falcon glares at me, 
one stern, yellow eye keeping me in check.

I hurriedly move to snuff out the light,
Then I remember... 
It was a night just like this.
Jackals crying,
Men shouting and guns firing.
Then silence.
Four hours of silence.
There was a knock on the door
and my mother and siblings started crying. 
And I just new.
Daddy wasn’t coming home.

Time has passed and we’re okay.
There is a whole where my heart was
and no-one calls me Daddy’s Little Girl anymore.
Nothing is like it was before.
I wish I’d told my Daddy not to go.
Now he will never see me grow.

Every now and again I wake
While the sun is hiding.
The jackals are crying and the guns are firing.
But it’s okay.
My husband is here beside me.
I tell him every night not to go.
Stay away from Night Tidings.
Stay safe here with me.

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Alone

Sitting on the pavement
Alone I sit
Thinking about the things I will miss.

The days flew by
and all I could do was cry
And cry
And cry.
Never could I speak the words
Never could I say
Because it was too late.

How many times will I wish
that you are still here?
With me...
We could be happy. Here - with with our family.

It’s where you belong! It’s what made us so strong!
You were what gave us the drive 
to survive!
To conquer our fears, 
dry up our tears,
to move on!
And now, you’re gone.

Here I sit.
With problems I can’t fix.
The biggest one is that you’re gone
And I’m thinking about all the things
I wish I’d said.
Because now you’re dead. 

I am surrounded 
by thousands.
And I’m still just so 
Alone.

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Fair Eyes

Feel as you may
See nothing but lies
The lines and creases around your eyes
Oh, how I do miss that smile.

Come, show me
Where do you hide?
Will you gather your things
With the coming of the tide?

Do you watch the sea 
From upon your cliff?
Till the wind and sand
Have whipped you, cold and stiff?

The yacht you once so loved
Has been set adrift
How many memories through
Do you sift?

Do you recall the last time
you felt so alive?
Fair Eyes, the world is different now.
Spread your wings and fly.